Where is All the DSD?

Agreed on Sony's availability. I guess it depends on what kind of music you want to listen to. There are on-line DSD download sites now. Acoustic Sounds has 280 DSD albums for download, and there are others - Channel Classics, Blue Coast Records, etc. Mostly jazz and classical. If you're into that kind of music, you could easily build a library of 500+ DSD albums via download, and growing...

Unless the availability and pricing gets in line with redbook offerings the masses will never embrace DSD....a real shame in my opinion.

Goose, you nailed it.

Yep, as usual, they want to charge us too much for the same music again... How many times do we have to pay the record companies for a copy of our favorite album(s) which we bought on plain classic vinyl, then on cassette for the car, then on "Perfect Sound Forever", then on MFSL re-mastered vinyl, then on half-speed remasted vinyl, then on heavy-weight 200 gr vinyl, then on 45-speed heavy 200 gr vinyl, then on 256k MP3 so it would fit on our iPod, then downloaded in 44/16 PCM, then on 96/24 PCM, and then on 64 DSD (which sounds pretty good to my ears)....

When Acouustic Sounds has 25,000 DSD titles I will get excited... Let's just hope that they don't raise the price above the $25 -$28 range which is already EXTREMELY high for a computer file with NO liner notes, no song lyrics, and nothing to hold in your hand and look at....

I think we all understand that music companies and retailers are in business to make money. It is hard to say where this hi rez thing is headed. In some ways, the high prices and poor selection of music closely parallels the early days of CD. On the other hand, I think those attempting to create a market for this material, need to understand they can price themselves out of business. I recently bought a Sony HAPZ1, which I understand was released for the purpose of supporting Sony's Hi Rez download initiative. I am astonished at how good red book CDs, copied to my computer, then downloaded to the HAPZ1, where they are converted on the fly to DSD 2, can sound. I buy a fair number of discount CDs from Berkshire and used CDs from amazon. I am a dedicated music lover and audiophile, but we are talking 4-5 x the price for a DSD download. I will buy a few, just to see what sound quality can be expected, but as Stickman points out, there is not much to get excited about just yet.